The Bank of England, formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.

The Bank is one of eight banks authorised to issue banknotes in the United Kingdom, but has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales and regulates the issue of banknotes by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

As well as its London offices, the Bank of England also has offices in King Street, Leeds.

The sealing of the Bank of England Charter ( 1694 )

In order to induce subscription to the loan, the subscribers were to be incorporated by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.

He proposed a loan of £ 1. 2m to the government ; in return the subscribers would be incorporated as The Governor and Company of the Bank of England with long-term banking privileges including the issue of notes.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

The main Bank of England façade, c. 1980.

In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called Bank of England Nominees Limited ( BOEN ), a private limited company, with two of its hundred £ 1 shares issued.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

BOEN has two shareholders: the Bank of England, and the Secretary of the Bank of England.

Tercentenary of the Bank of England, commemorated on a 1994 British two pound coin.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

He and his wife moved to San Francisco where he became a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

In 2004, the Phillies moved to their new home, Citizens Bank Park, across the street from the Vet.

When the Clydesdale Bank discontinued £ 1 banknotes, Robert The Bruce's portrait was moved onto the bank's £ 20 banknote in 1990 and it has remained there to date.

Some 276, 000 moved to the West Bank ; by 1949 more than half the prewar Arab population of Palestine lived in the West Bank ( from 400, 000 in 1947 to more than 700, 000 ).

The Bank of England cut interest rates, making government bonds less attractive investments, and existing railway companies ' shares began to boom as they moved ever-increasing amounts of cargo and people, making people willing to invest in new railways.

There were a number of other locations, among them a building on the west side of Main north of the American State Bank, from which the post office moved into its beautiful New Deal-funded building in 1940.

The Denison State Bank was founded in 1901, and after its second robbery, in 1938, was moved to Holton, the county seat, where it thrives today under the same name.

The only remaining piece of the Bank of Pennsylvania — one of the stone pillars — was moved to Adrian, Michigan and erected as the Civil War Memorial in commemoration of those in Adrian who died in the American Civil War.

The Adrian State Bank building went up that same year, and the town's first telephone office moved upstairs December 10, 1897.

The race moved to Red Bank in 1994 and was renamed in honor of Dr. George A. Sheehan, the prominent author, philosopher and area physician.

The growing service sector is most strongly represented by two regional banks, Walden Federal and Walden Savings Bank, are based in the village ( though the latter has moved to new headquarters at Scotts Corners, the 17K / 208 intersection ).

For many years it housed the now defunct Fort Piqua Hotel which closed in the 1980s. The building also provided a temporary home for Piqua National Bank which later moved to a newer building in 1929.

The Thurmond National Bank ( owned by Thurmond ) closed in 1931 and the New River Bank ( owned by the McKells ) moved to Oak Hill in 1935.

In 1926, the Athens Women ’ s Club took over management of the library and moved the collection to the Athens Bank.

Consequently, he moved the equipment to Jodrell Bank, south of the city on 10 December 1945.

Grosch's son, Christian Heinrich Grosch ( 1801 – 1865 ), who moved with his parents to Halden at the age of ten, became an influential architect, whose works include seventy-eight churches ( including Immanuels Kirke in Halden ), the Bank of Norway, the Oslo Stock Exchange, and the original university buildings in Oslo.

Additionally, it has privatized numerous government-owned companies, e. g. El Al and Bank Leumi, and has moved to privatize land in Israel, which until now has been held symbolically by the state in the name of the Jewish people.

In the 1950s he visited friends at Cleator Moor in Cumberland ( where Geoffrey Bennett was the manager at the National Westminster Bank ) and Southampton ( where Margery Thompson had moved after her marriage ).

* United Kingdom-1995 May Day Bank Holiday was moved from the first Monday in May to 8 May, for that year only, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War.

It was used as the board room for the bank until the 1970s, when the Bank of Ireland moved its headquarters elsewhere.

In 1876, the exchange moved to the rear of the Girard Bank Building, formerly the First Bank of the United States.

He meandered down Pike Street, past the First National Bank with its green window shades.

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

The Bank was privately owned and operated from its foundation in 1694.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

Ownership has since been transferred to BOCHK, although the Bank of China has leased back several floors for use by its own operations in Hong Kong.

The RGC is a member of most major international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The World Bank and IMF are now encouraging the government to concentrate exclusively on implementing much-needed economic reforms to jump-start the economy and defining its fundamental priorities with the aim of alleviating poverty.

Classified by the World Bank as a high-income economy, Cyprus was included by the International Monetary Fund in its list of advanced economies in 2001.

Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional € to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank ( Cyprus's 3 largest banks ) to the Greek financial crisis.

Cyprus is a member of the United Nations along with most of its agencies as well as the Commonwealth of Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Council of Europe.